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Sleater Kinney The Hot Rock

I was 14, and I never realized that music could rock without being obnoxious. I also didn't realize that music could rock minus the "power" chords. I grew up in the early-mid 1990s, and so music for me was always loud, fast, simple, aggressive, etc. Even sleater kinney had been playing such music, but when I heard the Hot Rock, I was amazed at the crafted detail that music could have, when the musician isn't trying to give you a head ache. Harmonies, melodies, riffs, scales, shit man, that was all new to me. I only new the verse-chorus-verse-solo-chorus-verse three chord punk rock that I was born and raised upon. My ears have never been the same.